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WOMEN AT THE RACES. Society Ladies Not Addicted to Betting ?A Strange Lot at Brighton Beach. The society woman of New York Is much malinged, but never more brutally than when represented as gambling with book makers at the races. The stories of the "New York belles*" queer capers seem to find ready credence out of town, however. A lady in New York does not differ mate rially from a lady In any other quarter of the globe. Ladie3 do not gamble here or elsewhere, unless one regards a playful wager of gloves with a personal friend as gambling. The women who have the smallest?if any?pretensions to social recognition are to be found at Brighton Beach. Tins course hus become famons for its ,lofF' de cisions and "fixed" races; it is on Coney island, and it catches the rag-tag and riff raff of the famous beach, as well as a daily contingent of 2,00i) or 3,000 "sports'* from New York and Brooklyn. Pool tickets may be bought for so small a sum as ? $2.00, and the crowd is composed of extra ordinarily hetrogeneOUS elements. Negro Stablemen, Irish saloonkeepers, French barbers, Germen tailors, Scandina vian boardiug-house ruuners, toughs, plugs, brokers, spruce young clerks, po licemen off for a day, crooks of every va riety from sneuk thieves to expert bank cracksmen, canal boatmen, waiters, hack men, bootblacks, Knglish visitors, who are as likely as not to be men of title, diminu tive jockeys, farmers and flashy sports, all elbowing their way iu aud out, smoking cheap cigars, drinking quantities of beer and betting all tiiey are worth ou every race. As may well be imagined the women who accompany these men are not sociably lovable. They are a strange lot. The number who attend the races day after day the season through at Brighton Beach is perhaps a little less than 100, but the occasional visitors swell the daily con tingent to perhaps "J00 women?there are several thousand men. Some of those are hard-featured, coarse and repulsive crea tures, dressed in gorgeons red or blue satin gowns with their slim Angers loaded . with showy rings aud their hair bleached to a sickening shade of yellow. They bet rather heavily, entrusting their money to more or less broken and dissipated young men who attend the women iu a shame faced way. One occasionally sees some big, good-natured aud cheaply dressed woman betting at intervals through a shrewd-looking lad or an old man. She is probably ihe mother aud her attendant the brother or father of one of the jockeys. ?New York Cor. Pioneer Press. A Bluff That Wan Called. I have an acquaintance in New York who enjoys life by practicing bluff. He is forever doing what he should not do, say ing what he should not say and going where he has no moral or legal rigid to go. just to see if he can manage to carry himself through by aid of limitless assur ance aud come out with flying colors. A few days ago he went on a little trip into the country with a lot of men, and just as they were coming away he discovered a solitary painter at work on the cornice of the hotel, six stories from the ground. The bluffer looked up aud then stepping out into the middle of the stre?t he shook both fists at the painter aud howled: "You moon faced idiot, didn't I tell you to put more yellow in that paint? - Til come up there and kick your head off your shoulders, you spike nosed chump. I waut you to understand hereafter that ?.vhc;:i I give you orders you're to carry them out, and don't you forget it, you?" At this moment the painter was seen to jam his brush in the paint pail, shove the pail through a window and start down the ladders at a miraculous rate of speed. The bluffer made a dead set for the railway station, but the painter chnsed him all over the town before he got there, aud it took ail his frieuds and two brakemen to keep the irate mechanic away from him up to the very last moment.?Blakely Hall in Brooklyn Eagle. Faults of German Universities. According to Dr. Flach, the universi ties are not, in the first place, examples of the dootrlne that learning prevents mun uers becoming ferocious. Mature doctors have been bo long iu the habit of calling one another?in Latin?osiulnc idiots, that their pupils think abuse the proper style of a scholar. Tfce general bullying tone is accompanied h\ its natural com ?itants, cliquism and partiality, even in examinations. A professor will do his best to pluck the pupils of a rival, and specialism is carried so far that the road to success Is to study an examin er's hobby, beyond which ho never travels?or, oddly enough, to make love to his daughter, and, if possible, to marn her. Indeed, according to Dr. Flach, the universities arc simply hot-beds of petti coat government, :- 'rigue, and worse; while the students' e":bs are secret insti tutions, under whicu the life of an inof fensive student often becomes a torture to him, on account of some imaginary of fense, or even caprice, of the president, of which the victim is never even informed. Persecuted by his comrades, plucked by rival professors, and worried by the fas cination of some rival professorinus, the life of that lengendary hero, the German student, would not seem to be all pipes and beer.?Brooklyn Eagle. Living on the ltetlred List. A goodly share of Washington society is made up from those who have legally outlived their official usefulness and gone on the retired list. Their honors the judges of the supreme court come first, and they insist on being invited out when ever the younger and more active of those on the bench are. Then we have rear admirals and commodores, laid up in or dinary, like dismantled iron-clads; gen erals and colonels, broken-winded and condemned as unfit for service. The crowd is complete by ex-senaturs and representa tives, who have not moral courage enough to break away from the Circcau fascina tion of the metropolis; claim agents, cor respondents and confidence men, all anx ious to advance some "little bill" in the success of which they are pecuniarily in terested.?Cor. Boston Budget. A Disinfectant for the Sick-Koom. A disinfecting compound lor purifying the atmosphere of the sick-room has been presented to the Berlin Medical society. Oil of rosemary, laveudar and thyme, in the proportions of ten, t wo and a half and two and a half parts respectively, are mixed with water and nitric acid in the proportion of thirty to one and a hall. The bottle should be shaken before using, and a sponge sat united iu the compound should be left to diffuse it by evaporation. The vapor of this compound Is said to possess extraordinary properties iu controlling the odor- and tfllnvia of offensiv- und in offensive disorders.?Chicago Herald. There were 15,100 chattel mort^a^ei filed in Now York tie,- tirst halt ->f ISStt. In the island of Java there are twenty letter-press printing oilicerf. CONSTRUCTING THE PANAMA CANAL What ti Returned Employe Says of tho Extravagance and mismanagement. Mr. A. P. Smith, of Salem, who for the ?past ftcteen years has lived in South America, and more recently has been em ployed as an engineer by the Panama Canal company, has just returned from Aspinwall, and tells an interesting story in regard to the method of prosecuting the work on the great De JL.esseps canal. "I was making my way home from Cathagenia," said he to a reporter, "but, attracted by the financial inducements offered by the Panama company, I went to Aspinwall, and immediately secured employment as an engineer in that city. I remained a number of weeks, and should probably be there to-day, but that I -.'ell a victim to the yellow fever, and on my recovery, finding that I could not stand the climate, I packed my chattels for home. During my stay I thoroughly inspected the canal, walking its entire length of fifty-four miles: "At present the outlook is bad, very bad. A great deal of money is being wasted, and it woiddalmost seem as if it were cul pably wasted. That portion of the canal thus tar completed is at the eastern end, and is a stretch about eleven miles long. Here the country is low and flat, the banks rising scarcely six feet on an aver age above high water mark, and the land is mostly of a clay formation. Through a country of this kind a cut eighty feet in width has already been ?ade for a dis tance, as I have stated, of eleven miles. While forests have been cleared away, and other cu-s have been made at various points alopg the flfty-four-m?p line of tho proposed canal, yet little more than tho eleven miles already referred to has been accomplished, for reasons which I will make clear to you later on. For another half-dozen miles the diggers and dredgers will have comparatively easy work, be cause, for about that distanoe, the general character of the soil is simitar to that al i ready encountered. But harder work re mains behind. About seventeen miles from the coast foot hills will be encoun tered, and the great mountain chain ! which runs through the continent from ' Alaska to Patagonia, is just beyond. Of course, that point has been selected for the bed of the canal where the mountains are the lowest, but cuts of 500 feet?and there will have to be several such?are no trifling matter, and can not be accomplished without great expense and considerable time. On every hand may be seen evidences of mltfritanagcment and gross extravagance. "Money is liter ally thrown away, and signs of "jobs" are more plentiful than mosqe'-oes in July. Much of the work is let o~t >>y contract, and all sorts and kinds of people secure the contracts." "What sort of men are the employes?" "The very scum of the earth," replied Mr. Smith. "Most of them are blacks, who recieve $3 per day, equivalent to something like $1.00 in our money. This means affluence to these men, and all higher grades of labor are paid proportion ately. But the money is the only possiblo inducement, and the wages must neces sarily be high to attract men to a region which will in all probability prove fatal to them if they remain there long. So the men and the women who come are the very lowest and vilest. Convicts and out laws and prostitutes make up a large per centage' of the sojourners there, and murder and arson are common. Police regulations are a farce, and justice is almost, impossible to obtain."?Boston Herald Interview. Kuling Passion Strong iu Death. Dr. Swan relates a very sad case of the ruling passion strong in death. I always believe a doctor's story, except iu a case of cure. If the patient dies, you never hear anything but the truth. If he lives, the doctor has to find some explanation of the phenomenon. Doctors, of course, see a vast variety of human nature, and es pecially its weak sides. This is a touching story of a young and fair girl, leaving the bright world while the dew of life was still laying on its morning glories. You can imagine the sadness of the scene. The growing certainty of tho end, the passing beauty of the world, the bright vision of all the happiness and the joy, the heavy shadow hanging over all. "It is hopeless," said the gentle doctor. "You can not live." "And must I die?" she asked. "You can not live." "Tell me, doctor, one thing before I go." "What is it?" "Does the hair change color after death?" "No." "Then I die happy. I'll look as well as those Smith girls on the day of judgment, anyway."?San Francisco Chronicle. Paris Dangerous for Pedestrians. Paris is the most dangerous city in the I world for the foot passengers. There Is I no rule of the road and no policemen to guard the crossings. The pavements are mostly smooth, silent asphalt and all, tho cabs are Insured in a company for that purpose, so the drivers are reckless, and so if a man gets in the way of a cab ho is arrested for obstructing the traffic. If he has been run over It is all the worse, for ho has more effectually obstructed the traffic and besides collected a crowd. In the princi pal streets of London this sort of thing Is better regulated that any where else in tho world. Iu the middle of the street there is a guarded safety spot. All traffic must keep to the left of the directum in which It is going. A person crossing has only to look for vehicles one way. A po lice-man stands in the center to see that foot passengers have a fair show for their lives. A little of that kind of tyranny would not be a bad importation to intro duce in some of our American cities.?De troit Free Press. A Cautious Chap Is Juliu Chinaman. Among the passengers on a north side car was a disciple of Confucius, who earns a living by washing shirts and stockings in a Clark street basement. Suddenly tho Chinaman held up his hand, focused his oblique eye un the conductor and calmly waited for the car to come to a full stop before he ventured to stop off. "That's just the way with these chaps," said the conductor, giving the bell two vicious jabs. "A Chinaman will never get on or ojl a ear unless it is standing per fectly still. We always have to stop for them. They arc more particular than an old woman with the rhumatiz. I have been a conductor six years, and in all that time I never .saw a Chinaman get tin or oil a moving car. I have taffeked with the other boys, and they say ir. is a full stop every time for a Chinaman. Why is this so? I give it up. You ought to be as good at guessing as I am." -Chicago Herald Arbitration in Trade Deputes. M. Lockroy, trie French minister of com merce and Industry, has In preparation a bill on arbitration in trade disputes based on tho English law, which he recently went to London to Btudy.?Paris Letter.' c. mayhew. j. m. mayhew. C. Mayhew&Son, COLUMBIA, S. C. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, COLUMBIA MARBEL WORKS. Manufacturers of and Dealers in All Kinds of AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE WORK, j Mantels, ".Monuments and Tablets furnished to any design at Lowest Prices, j Polished Granite Work, either Na tive or Foreign, to order. Building Stone of all kind furnished. Correspondence solicited with those in want of* any work iu theabo-'o line. Jan 7-1 yr. SPRING--1886--SPRING! THEODORE ffOUN 1UEODORE JLVoiIN IS NOW OFFERING UNUSUAL AT TRACTIONS AND GENUINE BARGAINS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR, DRESS AND WHITE GOODS. We display a grand collection of New and seasonable Styles at prices lower than EMBROIDERIES AND^LACES in very large variety, and unequalled bar- J gains are guaranteed. PARASOLS in all the newest designs at prices Ibat defy them all. JERSEYS! JERSEYS!! In all the latest Styles, at lowest prices. MATTINGS! MATTINGS ! MATTINGS 1 j In White, Red, Check and Fancies at very resonable prices. WINDOW CURTAINS, LACE CUR TAINS, RUGS, &C, In large assortments ? Call and see our large NEW STOCK. 'The prices are light and we solicit your patronage. THEODORE KOHN. MACHINE SHOP. I IjU>H THE CONVENIANCE OF I. Fanners and Mill Men, we have open ed a REPAIR AND SUPPLY siio on ! Mr. 11. Riggs' corner, ami will be prepared ? to do all necessary ENGINE AND GIN j REPAIRING with promptness, guaiantec I lug satisfaction in every instance. In connection with our Simp we are Agents for the sale of The Talbotl Engine, Saw and Grist Mills. Also the best Cotton Gins, Condencers and Self Feeders. The Ilandcock Inspirator, K?rting Universal Injector, the bc^l Roller feed hi the market, Yanduzuli Jot Pump, for lifting water out of wells o? any depth. We will keep* on hand a full linr; of DRASS FITTINGS, STEAM AND WA TER GUAGES, STEAM AND GAS PIPING, ELBOWS. NIPPLES, Sc. I PACKING, LUBRICATING AND CY LINDER OILS, and in fact everything to fir up your Machinery. Orders for Pul-1 leys and Shafting liMcd at lowest prices, j We would respectfully solicit the patronage ??f. the people (.i Orangcburg and surrouud ing country. ! POOSEF, McKEWN & CO. .lulv l.V li. :-t. M<?ss t . (i im ST7AKK | M'>SS ,v DANTZLKR. .j ATTORNEYS AY LAW, j OllAKGEBLRO, S. C. THE TEA POT. Peter C. Branson Announces that he lias opened the 1 TEA POT UNDER WAY'S HALL, And invites an inspection of GOODS and PRICES. I have determined to start out by giving the BEST VALUE for th LEAST MONEY. Anything in the Eating Line, from the fresh Tea to a pound of Flour will be sold at the Smallest Passible Margin. You will certainly get fresh Goods and Guaranteed at Lowest Prices. Be sure to call on mc when you want Groceries, ami you will sav Money. AUG. 1. 1886. PETER C. BEUNSON. UNDER WAY'S HALL Wanisuttn or New York Mills Mus lin and the best 2200 power Loom Linen. They have four-ply raised edge Linen fronts, Linen lined pat ent reinforced backs, four-ply neck hands*- with band-made buttonholes and continuous lacings in back ami sleeves. Warranted ami for .sale bv GEO. U. CORNELSON. to Removed TO OUR NEWLY FITTED UP STORE OPPOSITE THE TEXT. NOTICE. We do not propose to undersell everyone else, bill we are ready to meet fair competition. Our Stock is now complete: give us a call Mr. I. 8.CUMMINGS is with us, and will he. glad to see Iiis old friends and customers. We sell the. ROYAL 'ST. JOHM SEWING MACH INKS. Machines of all make.-; repaired. Large Wiigoa Yard in rem of VOSE & SALLEY, HAMILTON'S INSURANCE AGENCY LICENSE. E \ECI'TIVE D El'AUTMEXT. Office of ComitjiolleiiGexekajj, . columbia, S. C., April 1. lssii. ) T certify that Mr. John A. Hamilton, of X Orangcburg, S. C, Agent oftheNORTli j BRITISH and MERCANTILE, QUEEN Insurance Companies of North America, ? WESTERN ASSURANCE, FACTOR'Sand TRADER'S, PEICAN and HOMEINSUR ANCE COMPANIES, has complied with (he requistilions of t!ie Act ol tin General Assembly entitled An Act In regu late the Agencies of Insurance Companies not incoriKuated in Iho Stab* of South Caro lina, and I herein* license the said JOHN A. HAMILTON Agent aforesaid, to take risks and transact all business nf insurance in this Mate in ilie County of Orangcburg for and iu behalf d said Comoanics. Ex pires March :;ist, |XS7. W. E. STONEY, Comptroller General. UDELi JiDf CARRY ANY ST BIOT WAVE Ts NOW APPROACHING IN I earnest, and I wish to inform you that the Emporium of Fashion is the place to secure Clothing for hot weather, yon will find in slock, Line and Black Serge Suits and Drap D'ete. Just what is needed to keep cool and comfortable. Reside- these thin suits 1 have a lull assortment of Seer sucker Coats and Vests of all the latest patterns and In all sizes from ?1.73 to ?7.50. Black Alapacaand Silk Serge Coats in all sizes, including Extra Sizes, al-o Gents Underwear of India Oau/.e, Lisle Thread and Balbriggan. Just what you need this hot Season* ISOTICIL I will give to every cash purchaser to the amount of 810 or over, a SOLID SILVER N1CKLE STEM WINDING WATER BURY WATCH, a perfect ti.piece and of the new series. Gentlemen wishing to secure one of rhese watches had better make their purchases at once as the mini' her of watches are limited. RESPECTFULLY, M. L. K1NAHL), ' 'R.UMB1A, S. C. ONE SAW MILL OUTFIT COM plele and in perfect order, viz . (Inc THIRTY 1R|R>E LidLER, Une TWEN TY-FIVE HORSE ENGINE. On.- SAW MILL with ;.;J feel Carriage. Also, all Tools necessary, Ins been used only one year. Also, one NEW 10 HORSE AMES UPRIGHT BOILER, one SEVEN UORSli ENGINE. Apply to May 27-3WOS. GEO. II. CORNELSON. -g ss? r< Tj /iornelson: issr? J.88G vT? AjL? wORNELSON. ltfsl) OUR INCREASE IN TRADE PROVES vcn conclusively that our GOODS um FIRST-CLASS, ami an ' i?g sohl CLOSE, 01 the} v.u.;. i not bc sold so rapidly. You will find the prettiest and best selected CTOCK OF ORESS GOODC ?TOCK OF DRESS GOODtO With TRIMMINGS to match in this mar ket. it is u-eless to end over the different kinds. A visit to /lOKNELSu.VS MAMMOTH STORTJ? L/ORNELSON'S MAMMOTH storJDj will pi >vc ih asff.rtien THE NOTION DEI ARTMENT Is complete and wo defy any house hi the State ;) undersell us. DRESS TRIMMINGS. LADIES' NECKWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, BUTTONS, LACES, PARASOLS, &c.. &c, Arc specialties with us. It is an established fact that CORNEL SON'S is the place to buy your SHOES as he keeps the largest Stock to- select front. Among them you will find the celebrated Zeigler's Fine Shoes For Ladies, Misses, Children and Eoys. Other Makes for Ladies. He also keeps BANNISTER, and TAY LOR and CARR'S, CELEBRATED HAND SEWED AND MACHINE SHOES for gents in any st\ !e. lie warrants every pair or money refunded. In fact every pair that leaves his Store, matters not of whose make, as we only deal with tirst class houses, who are willing to stand by us. We lead in THE Cl.OilJS.su I2*:$1?%E?S. We have a large and fresh stock of Ihc latest Styles and Patterns, all of which were selected with can'. If you need any thing like Clothing, along with the prettiest Stock of DATs ever brought here. Call at CORNELSOVS and you will never re gret ?. Such ?s Neckwear, Jewelry, Cellars, Drawers, Undershirts and the celebrated "I'eail Silin,'' me loaders at CORNEL SON'S. Rnncuibei COR NELSON, is l ean i|tiar Lers for FURNITURE. !;' you want HARDWARE, rememUci at CORNELS' 'N'.sis i . . id;, plai ein town where yoti can supply i Verj need and prices guaranb i ? !. The best FLcUR, R.lCON, LsJLl), CANNED GOODS, SUGARS, HAMS, KINK TEAS, JAVA, RIO, 1'EABERRY. (and ROASTED COFFEES 1 i *l>.\? C0> and everything in the Groi-ei) line tj I Charleston ip i Mtioa ?. can !>e had at COR : NELSON'S. I CORNELSO.YS DOMESTIC STOCK j i- woi th Inoki u at. j 11 you need anytliini? in HARNESS or ISADDI.ElUl .. ? call.... - i . i 1 imaiiitit.?? ?... ale made. I on y i*m ploy first cla.-s men, who will sei ve my ens j t- im rs as t!. ' '?! 1 . 1 GEO. H. COMELSON.